Divorce Law Journal

Family Law from Ky Court of Appeals Today:Where MSA awarded each spouse his/her own IRAs and each waived any claim to the IRA of the other, but husband failed to change his beneficiary designation to someone other than former spouse, Ky Court of Appeals a

Sadler v. Buskirk

Where MSA awarded each spouse his/her own IRAs and each waived any claim to the IRA of the other, but husband failed to change his beneficiary designation to someone other than former spouse, Ky Court of Appeals affirmed trial court’s denial of new wife’s request to declare that former spouse had no rights as beneficiary.

One Published Family Law Opinion from Ky Court of Appeals Today

Smyrichinsky v. Smyrichinsky  http://opinions.kycourts.net/coa/2013-CA-000181.pdf Where both parties and the child have moved from the state issuing original child support order, trial court properly applied Kentucky law. The Court noted that the mother did not object to the application of Ky law until the third time the Ky court modified support. Trial court allocation of income tax dependency exemptions to father for three specific years affirmed.